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Chewing Over Diet Deliveries

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Zachery Kouwe Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated July 15, 2003 2:23 p.m. ET

Is this any way to lose weight -- scarfing down pre-made gourmet meals delivered to your door?

Gourmet diet delivery services are one of the fastest-growing segments of the $40 billion diet industry. As recently as two years ago, there were only a few services, but now there are nearly a dozen major offerings, some with as many as 3,000 members. A sample: Zone Gourmet, which serves a few cities on the East and West coasts and plans to...